Trump’s grand strategy is America’s reindustrialization.
King Donald and His Asian Vassals
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Building out the U.S. Hub-and-Spoke Empire in the Indo-Pacific
The United States is strengthening multilateral partnerships while laying the foundation for an Asian NATO.
The Feminist Response to RIMPAC and the U.S. War Against China
From Hawai’i to Okinawa, women leaders across the Asia and the Pacific offer an alternative to great power competition.
What Explains COVID’s East-West Divide?
Asia has done a much better job of containing the pandemic. Do values have anything to do with it?
America’s Rush Back to Nuclear Weapons
In this interview, Lawrence Wilkerson discusses the Trump administration’s approach to military security.
Obama, Trump, and the Future of U.S. Foreign Policy
The Obama administration will soon hand over power to a Trump administration that shares some of the very same foreign policy commitments.
Why the B-52 Failed
The B-52 is often touted as a game-changer, but it can’t overcome a determined adversary.
Great Gamble on the Mekong
A proposed dam on the Mekong River would provide energy for the region, but at a significant environmental cost.
Asia: The Elephant vs. the Shark
The Obama administration’s nebulous “Pacific Pivot” is setting the stage for a superpower conflict in East Asia.
Four More Years: The Asia Pivot
The United States is a Pacific power, but Asia is a very different place than it was two hundred years ago. You can’t dispatch “Chinese” Gordon and a couple of gunboats and get your way anymore. Nor can you deal with rivals by building Cold War-style alliances and threatening to use force. The world is too small, Asia is too big, and war would be catastrophic. The Pacific is no one’s “lake,” but an ocean vast enough for all.